In the editorial office of the ANN MATH journal in the United States, a group of editors are immersed in reviewing recently received manuscripts, and Miller is one of them.

When an author submits a manuscript to ANN MATH, he or she can choose a designated editor or randomly assign editors. As a new editor who has only been employed for less than three years, Miller has accumulated only a handful of outstanding authors, so it is natural that he would not be assigned to publish his manuscript.

There would be too many, so he usually lived off the randomly assigned manuscripts.

To be able to become the editor-in-chief of the ANN MATH journal, there is no doubt about the academic level of mathematics. Miller graduated from Princeton University with a postgraduate degree and majored in mathematics. Although his experience is not as good as that of those who have been in the industry for ten years or more.

Although I am responsible for editing, it is still easy to judge the quality and academic level of a manuscript.

ANN MATH does not limit the identity of contributors. In addition, it is so famous that it receives a large number of manuscripts every day. Miller is assigned hundreds of manuscripts every day.

Reviewing nearly ten manuscripts in one morning made him a little dizzy. Miller rubbed his temples and drank dry black coffee to refresh himself.

At this time, many editors in the editorial department had entered their routine twenty-minute break and discussed the manuscripts they had received.

"Smith, have you received any satisfactory manuscripts recently?"

"Oh, forget it. I have asked more than a hundred excellent authors in my hands, but none of them can write new and in-depth papers. As for the manuscripts submitted by newcomers, to tell you the truth, my God, I

I would rather he give me a paper manuscript so that I can use it to go to the toilet."

The editors complained one after another: "That's right, I recently received several manuscripts from master's students in the Department of Mathematics at Yale University. Do you think it's funny? Don't they know that the Department of Mathematics at Yale University is among the top universities in the United States?

They are not popular at all? How dare they submit articles to our journal! I also read a few articles carefully with the hope of being safe, but the results are the same and nothing new. I really don’t know where they got the confidence and courage to submit articles.”

"I have long suggested that our journal should set a threshold for submission, otherwise cats and dogs would submit to us, and what would they be writing about?"

"I have received a few that are barely qualified, and I will list them as candidates for the time being. I plan to read them for two more days. If there are no better ones by tomorrow night, I will have to bite the bullet and submit them."

There are a large number of editors, and each person only has five quotas for review and recommendation each week, and they must pass the test of the editor-in-chief before they can be counted in the performance. Therefore, editors usually wait until Sunday night to list the articles they have read during the week.

The manuscripts that I think are the best are sent to the editor for review. As for the rest that have not passed the review, of course, they will all be rejected.

"It seems that many manuscripts recently are in the direction of calculus. This direction is very popular, but it's a pity that none of them can be read."

"It's just that the editor-in-chief has been annoyed for a long time. In the last two issues, not a single qualified calculus-oriented paper has passed the review."

"There is no way. The calculus direction has been very popular for decades. There are too many people writing about it. All the major subdivisions have been badly written. I want to write something new and innovative, and there are enough innovative highlights to attract attention. There are also

Enough academic depth is easier said than done? I have approached several outstanding authors who have specialized in writing in this direction in the past to invite manuscripts, but they all said they had no new ideas for the time being. It was a headache."

After hearing this, Miller felt better.

Because he has a very good manuscript in the direction of calculus.

He couldn't help but recall the first time he saw this article titled "The conservation law and seventeen variational methods are used to find the general solution of the boundary value problem of nonlinear partial differential equations"

Thoughts on the General Solution to Boundary Value Problems of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations)" The scene when writing the manuscript...

He still clearly remembered that he was chewing gum at that time, and then directly screened out the calculus-type manuscripts in the submission library on the computer - there was no way, the editor-in-chief was in urgent need of manuscripts in this area, and then he quickly saw it

This manuscript.

When he saw this title, Miller's first thought was that today's authors really dare to write any kind of title. The research on general solutions to boundary value problems of nonlinear partial differential equations has been very in-depth, but currently there are only ten

Variation methods that cannot be found. This guy is so arrogant. He actually dares to write that there are seventeen variation methods?

Of course, such a title is not the most exaggerated. Miller has received even more outrageous titles before, such as "One hundred effective numerical methods for general generalized geometric programming problems" and "Ninety-nine algebraic methods based on genetic algorithms."

"New Method for Numerical Solution of Equations", the results show that it is all micro-innovation. A little change dares to be called a new method and new thinking, and it has no academic depth. I dare to write any title just to attract attention!

So generally when seeing this kind of title, Miller basically initially judges it to be academic garbage.

I looked at the author information again, oh, he is from Xia Guo, he seems to be a high school mathematics teacher, and has no reputation, and the corresponding author and the first author are both the same person.

The mathematics community of Xia Guo was once glorious for a while, but it has declined and been silent for a long time in recent years. Anyway, in Miller's impression, it seems that no manuscripts by Xia Guo mathematics scholars have been reviewed on ANN MATH in the past two years.

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Not to mention a new author who is still working alone, has not joined a research laboratory, and does not even have a communications mentor.

Forget it, let’s review it.

Complaints are complaints. As an editor, you still have to read the manuscript carefully. This is the minimum professional ethics.

Miller suppressed his impatience and started reviewing the manuscript.

Abstract, the introduction part is quite satisfactory, there is no problem. Miller quickly saw the core and most academically valuable part of the paper, which is what the title says "Using conservation laws and seventeen variation methods to find nonlinear

General solutions to boundary value problems of systems of partial differential equations".

Huh? I seem to have never seen the first method before.

Miller's body, which had been leaning nonchalantly, sat upright a little.

The first method has no problem, the entry point is also very good, and it is eye-catching.

Let’s look at the second method... I’ve still never seen it before, but it’s also very interesting.

The third, the fourth... until he saw the seventeenth variation method, Miller sat up completely and stared at the screen with his eyes. His eyes had become dry due to staring at the screen for a long time.

He was in pain, but he was completely unaware of it.

He was filled with shock!

Impossible...how is this possible? He has never seen all seventeen variation methods!

Especially the following seven methods, all of which are extremely subtle and innovative methods that will impress people!

The last two are even more exaggerated. They perfectly integrate the thinking of conservation law equations to find general solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations. The conception is so exquisite, so novel, and so complicated that even he, a graduate student from Princeton University, can't figure it out.

Judging whether it is completely correct, but analyzing the idea of ​​​​the writing, 99% of the probability is correct!

Miller turned over and sat up, drank a cup of original black coffee, letting the bitter taste stimulate his nerves and activate all his brain cells, and then he read the core content of this part carefully again.

Thinking logic, reasoning calculations, and argumentation steps are all flawless!

Amazing!

Miller couldn't help but gasped. These seventeen methods, especially the last two variational methods that incorporate the thinking of conservation law equations, any one of them can be taken out as a separate paper!

Miller forcibly suppressed his excitement, read all the subsequent parts of the paper, and basically made a preliminary judgment in his mind.

This paper is very good! It is the best paper I have ever read in the field of calculus in the past three years of my career, bar none!

Once published, it is likely to rekindle the interest of mathematicians around the world in the study of general solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations, and even open a new door to new methods of solving general solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations!

It’s stable. My bonus this week, no, my bonus this year is stable!

In order to prevent his excitement from affecting his judgment, Miller went to the smoking area to smoke a cigarette before reviewing the manuscript for the third time.

During the third careful and careful review, he finally discovered some problems. Some words in the introduction and conclusion of this paper were not particularly appropriate, but this was an author from a non-native English speaking country, writing in English.

Common problems in the process have little impact, and Miller can even give suggestions for adjustments and corrections.

Other than that, the paper is perfect.

Miller even believed that the subsequent expert review process would not be able to find any faults.

After conducting a regular "plagiarism check", the plagiarism check rate is even more horribly low. It is certain that this paper is 100% original!

Miller did not hesitate to put this paper on the list of "must report recommendations", but the sixteenth and seventeenth methods in it were too profound. He felt it was necessary to communicate and discuss with the author, so he sent

An email was sent to the author's email inbox, hoping that the author would answer some of his questions.

As a result, I waited for two days and the author did not reply.

Miller couldn't hold himself back any longer and simply made a phone call overseas. To his surprise, the author of this very academic paper was not the high school teacher he thought he was, but a high school student! This is also true.

Isn’t it incredible?

With a shocked heart, Miller conducted in-depth academic discussions with the high school students from Naxia Country. Although the student's English level was not particularly high and some of his expressions were a little unintelligible, from the results of the communication between the two, Miller

Le still came to the conclusion that this paper was really written by this high school student, and this high school student's calculus level was very high, higher than any undergraduate or even graduate student he had ever seen!

My God, this is simply an incredible miracle. How could Xia Guoli, whose academic level in mathematics was very average, give birth to such an incredible high school student?

After hanging up the phone, Miller was still in shock. After a while, he calmed down and suddenly remembered that such a powerful high school student should not be an unknown person in Xia Country, right?

Miller immediately opened the Google interface and entered "ying yuan si li gao zhong qin ke" in the mailing address as a keyword search.

Countless results immediately appeared on the web page, and the first one was a Facebook post written by a junior at Princeton University named "Peter."

"Today I met a miracle boy from Xia State. Believe me, I'm not exaggerating. This is the most amazing and incredible high school student I have ever seen. His attainments in the four basic theoretical subjects of college mathematics are even better than mine and
Chapter completed!